WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Trump administration plans to remove a photograph taken in Baton Rouge during the Civil War showing a formerly enslaved man's scarred back from a national park, The Washington Post reported.

The administration aims to get rid of information on slavery from national parks to remove "corrosive ideology" from the parks. The specific photograph, called "The Scourged Back" that could be removed from a park.

The photo shows what is believed to be a formerly enslaved man named Peter Gordon in 1863.

A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior disputed the claims.

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